A London, Ont., Conservative MP has co-issued a statement to push Parliament and the Department of Canadian Heritage to prioritize looking deeper into an alleged sexual assault involving Hockey Canada.
Earlier this month, Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge ordered a financial audit of an out-of-court settlement involving a woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted by junior hockey players following a Hockey Canada event in London in 2018.
“For four years, there was a cover-up here, (and) I’m just wondering why,” said Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Karen Vecchio. “Why has it taken so long for this to come to light?”
As first reported by TSN, the woman accused eight Canadian Hockey League players, including members of the 2018 national junior team that won world junior gold that year, of sexual assault following a Hockey Canada Foundation gala in London in June of 2018.
She filed a $3.55-million lawsuit against Hockey Canada, the CHL and the unnamed players. The lawsuit was settled. The allegations against the players were never proven in court.
A motion passed earlier this month in the House of Commons summoned Hockey Canada to Canadian Heritage’s standing committee “to shed light on its involvement in a case of alleged sexual assaults committed in 2018.”
Vecchio, who is also the Conservative Shadow Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, says the minister of sport has called for a forensic audit, “but to date, that’s all that there is.”
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